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Best Picture winners Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and Barry Spikings, with presenter John Wayne. Christopher Walken.
The 51st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9, 1979, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST.
Feb 5, 2014 · 52nd Academy Awards (1979): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST PICTURE. All That Jazz – Robert Alan Aurthur. Apocalypse Now – Francis Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson, Tom Sternberg. Breaking Away – Peter Yates. Kramer vs. Kramer – Stanley R. Jaffe. Norma Rae – Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose. DIRECTING.
7 Oscars. 2. The French Connection. 1971 1h 44m R. 7.7 (137K) Rate. 94 Metascore. A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. Director William Friedkin Stars Gene Hackman Roy Scheider Fernando Rey. 5 Oscars. 3.
The winning picture won five awards out of its nine nominations - Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay Adaptation (Robert Benton). All four major cast members (Hoffman, Streep, Henry, and Alexander) were nominated, with the two lead stars both winning in their categories.
John Wayne presented the Best Picture award. He had recently had two major surgeries and did not appear well. He passed away on June 11, 1979, just under two months later. Prior to the presentations, the police had to deal with demonstrators who objected to The Deer Hunter as a racist film and as a fantasy picturization of the Vietnam cause.
David P. Robinson (Dolby Laboratories, Inc.), Stephen Katz (Dolby Laboratories, Inc.) For the development and implementation of an improved Sound Recording and Reproducing System for motion picture production and exhibition.
